“These mines were the original lottery. You dig, you get nothing. You dig, you get nothing. But the next shovel-full is going to be it.”
Bill Baxter
“Sometimes it feels like we're shoveling sand against the tide. We shovel some bad guys out of the way, and there's some new and younger and more energetic ones to take their place.”
Larry Smith
“Our motto is still keep shoveling. We want to be the guys with the shovel in our hand, getting dirty and not getting all glamorized and Hollywood after two games.”
Willie Anderson
“A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination”
Hal Borland
“shoot, shovel and shut up.”
Richard Pombo
“The parallel people often use is the California gold rush. People got rich selling picks and shovels.”
Charles Wagner
“I'm 61, and I'll have to shovel it, and I'll get sued if somebody falls on it.”
Fred Walker
